Making art of the Holocaust
As dramatic opera, The Passenger inhabits a grey zone of guard–prisoner relations
Music for a warm bath
Bloch, Bruch, Dohnanyi (Claves)
The glorious Ninth
Relive the moments when music changed forever
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
In praise of the viola
Cantabile: Anthems for viola (Delphian)
An array of civilised music
Walter Kaufmann: 3rd piano concerto, 3rd symphony &c. (CPO)
Musical no man’s lands
Two violin concertos fail to inspire
A great conductor leaves the stage
No conductor from China or Japan ever commanded world orchestras before Seiji Ozawa, and none has since matched his impact
A masterpiece in miniature
Taneyev, Schumann: Piano quintets (Signum)
Playfulness and tedium
Stravinsky, Petrushka; Debussy, Jeux and Prelude (Decca)
The same old song
A reboot of nineties favourite Le Caprice is more museum than restaurant
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Kemi Badenoch’s bad spell
Badenoch keeps bowling lop hops to Keir Starmer
The horror of 7 October on film
The killers’ headset footage, CCTV, interviews with survivors and heart-rending last messages
Look on our works, ye voters, and despair
Nothing beside remains except the colossal wreck of the Tory Party
A real plan for growth
A series of simple economic blunders has led to self-defeating policies that strangle any chance of prosperity for all
Is Cheltenham beyond parody?
A books bash these days has to offer Geri and Geoff Hurst and that bloke out of Radiohead
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
